Chapter 240: Exiled Father
That night, Takeda Harunobu received good news that the messenger between Imagawa Yoshimoto and his father Nobuta had been intercepted by Imai Bingbu in advance.
": Okay, Soldier's Department!" Takeda Harunobu, who rushed to receive the news, praised the Imai military department for his meritorious service, and pointed to the Imagawa messenger who was tied up and asked, "How is it, have you gained anything?"
"Ha~~~, this is a letter found from him." Imai Bingbu responded and presented the intercepted secret letter, but Takeda Shingen, who received the secret letter, quickly changed his face.
"Receive Harunobu-sama in Nirasaki! Yoshimoto, this guy ......" Takeda Harunobu who was annoyed suddenly became gritted his teeth, and it seemed that Imagawa Yoshimoto finally chose to side with his father.
"Young master." Sakagaki Nobufang on the side took the letter at this time and persuaded: "I will still hand over this secret letter to the lord, otherwise the lord may be suspicious and take precautions." β
"Hmm~~~" Takeda Harunobu nodded in anger and handed over the letter, gritted his teeth and said, "Tomorrow is finally going to start acting!" ......
On the second day, Takeda Harunobu still led the army forward as a vanguard, and unsurprisingly met Imagawa's retainer Goro Gobei in the land of Nirasaki.
"I'm a retainer of the Imagawa family, Goro Takama, and I want to meet Lord Shintora." As soon as they met, Goro Takama reported his home to Takeda Harunobu.
Takeda Harunobu immediately pretended not to know and asked, "What's the matter?"
"I want to tell Lord Shintora in person, I am the messenger of my lord Imagawa Yoshimoto, please let me see Lord Shintora."
"No way!" Harunobu Takeda loudly rejected Gorou Takama's request. "Say what you mean."
Seeing that the other party ignored him, Takeda Harunobu shouted loudly: "I'm Takeda Harunobu, aren't you here to greet Lord Takeda Shinto?"
"No!" Goro Takama retorted loudly, "We, Imagawa, are going to greet Lord Harunobu Takeda. β
"The consequences of hearing the wrong lord's words are very serious!" Takeda Harunobu sneered and asked again, "Ask you again, who is the person you greeted?"
"It's Harunobu Takeda!"
"Rude guy." Takeda Harunobu immediately reprimanded: "You falsely spread the intentions of Lord Imagawa, isn't this a traitor?"
"Damn!" Takama Goro Beibei felt bad and turned around and fled, but within a few dozen steps, he was beheaded by Hara Huyin, who followed closely.
At this time, Takeda Shinhu naturally didn't know what was happening ahead, and when he received the secret letter, he heard the movement ahead and thought he had a plan, so he ordered someone to find out the news.
"I don't know what's going on, you go and investigate."
"Yes."
"If it's the Imagawa Army, then it's here to extradite Harunobu." Before the attendant left, Takeda Shintora specially advised: "I have especially asked Lord Imagawa for this, if this is the case, you should not care." β
"Yes."
"It's all for Kai!" Takeda Shintora, who sent away the attendants, couldn't help but muttered to himself, but at some point, the soldiers beside him suddenly changed formations and surrounded him.
"You guys!" Frightened, Takeda Shintora hurriedly reprimanded: "Are you trying to rebel? Don't quit yet! Stand down, stand down!"
However, instead of retreating, these soldiers of the Takeda family were about to approach the angry Takeda Shintora.
"Ganley!"
"Ministry!"
"Sakagaki!"
"Centaur Pursuit!" ......
"What's wrong with you?" Frightened, Takeda Nobuta couldn't help but call out loudly to his former confidants, but unsurprisingly, none of them responded.
"Rebellion! You're a rebellion!" Takeda Shintora, who was old in scheming, still didn't understand what was going on at this time, and couldn't help shouting sadly and angrily: "I'm Takeda Shintora, and I'm the lord of Kai." β
"Don't scream, don't take him down yet." The only thing that responded to Xinhu was this cold voice.
On the other side, the soldiers of the Imagawa family panicked because of the death of the main general Goro Takama.
"The warriors of the Imagawa family are quiet!" Seeing this, Sakagaki Nobukata couldn't help but step forward and shouted: "Fang Cai Takama Goro Bei tried to murder the head of the family and was beheaded, and later you can extradite Lord Takeda Shintora according to the agreement." β
"Lord Takama was killed by the Takeda family, so avenge Lord Takama."
"It's over, it's over, the Lord will die in battle, how to replace the Lord here."
"There's civil strife in the Takeda family, go back to Suruga!"
However, how could the soldiers of the Imagawa family listen to the advice of outsiders if they lost their main general, and as the situation developed, the Imagawa side gradually had the posture to start a war with the Takeda family.
"Kansuke." Sensing this from a distance, Takeda Shingen instructed Kansuke Yamamoto beside him, "You go to the Imagawa soldiers and let them calm down. β
"Yes." Kansuke Yamamoto answered, immediately put down his luggage and rode over on a fast horse.
"I'm Kansuke Yamamoto, I'm Kansuke Yamamoto."
"The lord ordered the extradition of Takeda Shintora! Quiet, quiet!"
This Yamamoto Kansuke was not an unknown person in the Imagawa family in the past, so after he shouted, the originally panicked Imagawa army quickly settled down.
"Since it's Kansuke-sama, there must be nothing wrong with that!" The Imagawa army, which had settled down, thought so.
So after another moment, the captured Takeda Nobuta went to Suruga under the escort of Imagawa soldiers, and before leaving, Nobutora looked back at Kai with reluctance, but he never had the opportunity to return to his own territory in his life.
Kai, Tsugasaki Pavilion.
A few days later, news of Harunobu Takeda's successful coup d'Γ©tat and exiled his father finally reached the ears of his mother, Mrs. Oi, by messenger.
"According to the order of the young master, the lord has been driven out of the territory."
"Got it!" Mrs. Oi sighed and said after a long silence that both father and son were safe and sound.
On the second day, Harunobu Takeda, who had already become the lord of Kai, finally led a large army back to the Kushizaki Pavilion.
"Move the Banner Shield to the main hall and prepare for the assessment!" As soon as he returned to the city, Harunobu Takeda summoned all his retainers to assess.
These imperial flags and shieldless armor are two heirlooms passed down by the ancestor of the Takeda family, Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, and have always been the proof of inheriting the position of the head of the Takeda family. Therefore, as soon as Takeda Harunobu returned to the city, he invited these two treasures from the secret room to hold an evaluation, only in this way can his position as the head of the family be more justified.
"The Imperial Flag Shield has no example!"
"The Imperial Flag Shield has no example!"
"The Imperial Flag Shield has no example!" ......
Originally, the samurai were extremely ashamed of betrayal, but Takeda Shintora was also really unpopular, so the retainers of the Takeda family quickly accepted Takeda Harunobu as the new head of the family.
The sound of "Imperial Flag and Shield without Permission" was heard one after another, indicating that they recognized Takeda Harunobu's rule over Kai in the presence of these two Takeda family treasures.
Shield without armor: Armor without a shield.